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Strong progress for the bees

Bayer is determined to keep selling its killer-pesticides for profit -- whatever the cost to the bees. It’s still pushing ahead with a ridiculous lawsuit against the EU’s two-year ban on the pesticides that are behind the global bee die-off.

Well two can play at that game. Tens of thousands of us chipped in to defend the ban in the European courts against Bayer -- and the court is currently considering our case. The stakes are high. If Bayer wins, it would be a huge setback for the bees -- making it much harder to push other countries to ban these dangerous pesticides. But with science on our side, we’re quietly confident we can silence Bayer’s legal threats.

Meanwhile, thousands of SumOfUs members in the US and Canada joined up with Friends of the Earth and others to deliver a Valentine’s message to big garden stores Home Depot and Lowe’s -- asking them on the phone and in stores to “show the bees some love”. After the national media covered the story, Home Depot has contacted us to let us know it's developing a policy on neonics. It’s a positive sign -- but we’ll keep up the pressure until it commits to remove bee-killing pesticides from its stores, and we're working to push other retailers to action, too.